Second Bloom
There are eight of them around the table: Valentina, Isabel, David, and five others from their programme whom Valentina remembers with varying degrees of affection.
She sits beside a girl named Clàudia, whom she liked in her first life and then lost track of somewhere after graduation, the way you lose track of people when you stop making effort the primary currency of friendship. Clàudia is studying communications, has opinions about everything, and laughs with her whole face. She was, Valentina now understands, exactly the kind of friend she should have kept.
"ROTC," Clàudia says, when the subject comes up. "Seriously? How early do you have to get up?"
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